BEIJING: Chinese leaders approved on Sunday a policy that will in theory allow peasants to buy and sell their land rights, a move that sets in motion the nation's biggest economic reform in many years, according to a report by Xinhua, the state news agency.
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KOLKATA, Oct 12: The Tatas may have driven Nano out of Singur, but the site is soon going to be taken over by another car-manufacturing company, West Bengal transport minister Mr Subhas Chakraborty claimed here today.
Sreelatha Menon / Kanjhawla (new Delhi) October 13, 2008, 0:07 IST
The state and the farmer are once again at the crossroads and the battle this time is being played out right in the national capital on the Delhi-Haryana border village of Kanjhawla.
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati cancelled the land allotted for the Rs 2,200-crore rail coach factory, in Rai Bareli, the parliamentary constituency of Congress president Sonia Gandhi.
Lucknow/New Delhi: The Sonia Gandhi-Mayawati battle for the political turf of Uttar Pradesh flared up months before the general election on Sunday when the BSP government in Lucknow cancelled its order for allotment of 189.25 hectares of gram sabha land for the setting up of a rail coach factory at Lalganj in Sonia Gandhi